Pumpkin Scissors Man VS Machine

[@pepps779]

Probably the most absurd anti armor tactic to consider, brainwashing infantry into taking on tanks at close range with a large pistol while wearing a blue light that displays their location the whole time. That being said, it would be one hell of an intimidation factor.

[@kusamaID]

True. But its anime. Anime logic always win

[@pepps779]

@@kusamaID Very true.

[@andymcneilly]

It kinda makes them look like an undead army of death, a pistol that can break through the armor and shears that can clip away at the armor. The lantern switched them into a pure emotionless killer made during the mad hours of war. A army of pure soulless army that make it look like the dead comes at them, even to their deaths and all pain is nothing to them.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@kusamaID true

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@andymcneilly they know a tank's weak spots

[@ninjadanimo4141]

Pumpkin Scissors has the greatest character development... An experimental soldier of a (now gone) legendary company who is known only as "Gespenst Jäger of the invisible 9" who is conflicted with the motives of the Pumpkin Scissors squad and that of the influence of the 901 ATT Lantern. In the Manga, they explain why the Lantern has such an influence on him, but It is great seeing the response the soldiers have when they realize who he is. However, I think that the manga is better at telling the true story of Randel Oland, I loved the anime.

[@beholddaempathyangel]

a legendary company names their legendary experiment, legendary name.....Pumpkin scissors,....wait why does it sounds funny may be my imagination

[@andrewcarlson3486]

why didnt they continued the anime

[@andymcneilly]

@@andrewcarlson3486 It didn’t feel catch popularity and it a few episodes in, it followed its own story as compared to the manga, you mess out on the Carousel incident, where he took on an armored train. Randel was a soldier born in district Zero, who Anime watchers wouldn’t know, a distract which is the slums, where you basically born of no name, a ghetto basically. Children working for different mafias who try to keep peace with each other. The experimental troop, the invisible Nine, experimental soldiers of the most dangerous type. Chemical warfare, infantry who fight a tank head on, flamethrower users.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@andymcneilly *sigh* if only they made a season 2 or more

[@andymcneilly]

@@andrewcarlson3486 It would’ve good, following the manga that is. The story wasn’t trying to paint one side as good or bad, well, in the latest chapters, we get a big bad to hate, yet we understand them. It was more on the concept of justice, understanding the corrupt world. It was odd thing, showing that even war may breed great wonders, yet horrible things. Randel became a soldiers to help pay for his family, the tumble weed brats, who have a rule not to kill and members leave when you can’t be considered a kid/brat, in fear to be seen as new family being form. The empire isn’t perfect(a representing Germany), and the Republic of Frost(Soviet Russia) is not better.

[@JamesPaparella]

901ATT, How awesome is it when guys in tanks start freaking out at the sight of an unearthly blue light?

[@andymcneilly]

James Paparella Trust me, the reason they are so scared is that they are reminded of the stories of monsters of horrible form. Shame this was cut so short for the story and so much was missed. The manga is really good as the whole nature of who are good or bad is hard to see. It makes one justice the nature of humanity.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

oland: turning on lamp tank: BACKIN UP BACKIN UP BACKIN UP!!!

[@andrewcarlson3486]

It's when you turn on you're lantern to leave life itself just to pull a trigger that brings death

[@Kez_DXX]

Toten sie!

[@grimoireweiss6428]

“You can burn out their eyes, you can even tear out their arms, but they will never stop advancing, they disregard their own lives and attack at point black range, they have marched away from life itself to pull the trigger that brings death, they are the legend of the battlefield, the phantom warriors of 901 anti-tank troop, guided by the Willow the wisp, the bringers of death, Gespenst Jäger.”

[@pyrus0zero]

I get chills everytime I hear that.

[@grimoireweiss6428]

@@pyrus0zero that gives you chills? You should hear the chant Toten Sie when the lantern is opened.

[@pyrus0zero]

@@grimoireweiss6428 I think one of the best is how the professor described how the Door knocker came it be and how best to use it. “Blasting away at point blank range! Right up against the armor! KNOCKING ON THE DOOR!”

[@grimoireweiss6428]

@pyrus0zero Honestly I feel sorry for a flame thrower unit. If you watch the episode and read their back story what they went through is way worse than anything else Is that mad scientist did to his experimental units.

[@pyrus0zero]

@@grimoireweiss6428 Yea the 908 flame thrower devision. The flames from their own guns were so intense it burn the user as well. To get them deployed, the scientists lied about the coolant. Instead of protecting them it just numb the pain of the burns and once they get out of the suit. It’s over and they practically melt to death.

[@XxTaiMTxX]

I sort of really love the concept of this "anti-tank weapon". I've seen it and used it in video games. Infantry who charge you with intent to take you with them is one of the scariest things a tank operator can likely imagine. Run you over? How? Tanks have a blind spot up close. You get in that spot, and the tank is your prey. You can cause all sorts of havok from this blind spot. One does not need an anti-materiel rifle to take out a tank at that range. A well-placed grenade or mine could do the job. An infantry man not afraid of your tank, who charges you head on and doesn't seem to die no matter how many times you fire... That is a threat FAR more dangerous than the weapon you are using. Especially if that infantry has the means to destroy your tank from that range, and only that range. If they have resigned themselves to death just to get within range to deal a killing blow of you... There is nothing more terrifying for someone sitting in what is essentially a glorified "artillery" vehicle. One that provides absolute safety and a false sense of security with its armor. The weapon isn't the gun. It isn't the shears. It is the man. The man who charges into danger with a singleminded objective to kill you no matter what it takes, and only his own death will stop him. THAT is a weapon. A psychological weapon more powerful than any atomic bomb. It saps your will to fight and your ability to make rational decisions. It forces you to run away because you can do little else against a man of such a single focus. Looking into that man's eyes is like looking into the eyes of a soulless doll. Only a complete psychopath could see that coming at them and not be scared.

[@andymcneilly]

The device, the lateen actually is connected wirelessly to the user’s brain, and movement is what charged it. The Empire created units of nightmares, Flamethrower users of horrid death, chemical warfare that could even risk death for themselves, each unit is made to be bringers fo death, hunters... Randal is scared that he shall lose all his humanity because of it. His scars are not just form the war... but the weapons he had used.

[@deathbunny1718]

to be fair to Randal, he was built to face ww1 tanks , these being 10mm thick armour at the thickest points , which would mean he could just fire his 13mm gun from a few meters away and land a kill. However with the interwar periods advancement tanks became more advanced and Armour became thicker, so the only solution the troopers had was to aim through sight ports , and loader hatches. the loader hatch was about 15mm of steel for a tiger so point blank fire was the only solution leading to the name door knocker. so Randal like most interwar period and early ww2 weapons was built for the wrong war and had to adapt even if it meant harming himself

[@Nyrufa]

"Just like us, soldiers with no fear of death" - Dude, you're the one retreating in a tank...

[@andymcneilly]

I find it really funny how the lord begged so badly not he killed like a simple dog, the same what all the rest had ran away from him, terrified by this horrifying force before them. One could say... the 901st ATT was design to be the warring monsters to take on the monsters of steel.

[@pliskinishmael7190]

In reality though. It is pretty scary if theres like 5 to 10 guys with molotovs and C4s while you're in a tank stuck in a ditch. And some of them takes out your coax and blows up the turret with a C4. They'd just keep burning the engine until it overheats and cooks you all inside...

[@coconuttydragoon3445]

Another unit, a flamethrower unit, was a similar idea to them, of using fire.

[@sauronkiller23]

5:53 "why do I hear boss music music" last words of a man manning the tank

[@andrewcarlson3486]

Crazy they knew about the 901st

[@nicolasramirez3456]

The gun: big and strong enough to pierce a thick tank amor sound: ᴾᵉʷ What was the sound editor thinking 😂😂😂, he kind of nerfed the gun with that weak sound 😂

[@valynazvalkynaz5375]

I like the idea of almost silent yet powerful cause it gives off the vibes of those soldiers who will March unspeaking and silently with all of their power towards a tank to stare it down point blank and destroy it

[@GasMaskTrenchCoat]

If only these tanks had machine guns to protect against infantry. Like every other tank ever.

[@MrJinglejanglejingle]

Considering he's tanking straight-up main cannon shells, I doubt the machineguns would do much more than slow him. Perhaps if they hit a vital spot, but... For the most part, they would be useless.

[@jambyjameson1380]

Exept the ferdinand. Damn germans.

[@CptPhilippnes]

In the timeline of the anime, rapid fire weaponry have not been invented yet. In terms of close range, they had bolt action rifles and shotguns.

[@dand1253]

There's an in universe explanation. Up until about 20 years ago, these people didn't even have arquebuses, much less tanks; everything more advanced than the 12th century or do is courtesy of a Leonardo da Vinci-esque figure, Kauplan, who was so impossibly brilliant that he effectively Connecticut Yankee'd the entire setting. At least, until the nobles got tired of dealing with a lowborn upstart and had squeezed enough inventions out of him to feel they'd gotten their money's worth from him. Then things fell apart for Kauplan very, very quickly. After he committed suicide, the only sources of new innovation even close to his level were his semi-apprentices; he used the Kauplan Institute to build a council of scientists who each had something approximating his own genius within a single discipline, who were dubbed the "Kauplans" of their chosen field. Oland's doctor, for example, is/was the Kauplan of medicine. Thing is, not all of them were happy with working for the nobles, and a number of them either died or defected in the years after their mentor's death. The Kauplan of metallurgy bailed on them shortly before the ceasefire, and without his expertise, the nobles' engineers (who are either commoners who earned a spot but are treated like shit regardless, or the inbred failsons of some random noble who got in via nepotism) haven't had any success developing an automatic firearm that doesn't tear itself apart inside of seconds thanks to the glorified pig iron they make them out of. They also haven't really grokked how to make the jump from cap-and-ball single shot actions to fully automatic or semi-automatic ones. Oland's gun is probably one of the more advanced firearms in the country, since it actually has properly jacketed rounds & a rifled barrel (and was made under the OG Kauplan's watch, so it's proper chrome-moly or stainless steel alloy instead of whatever pigshit the nobles' failsons managed to cobble together after the Kauplan of metallurgy left and took all the research notes with him). At present, their "automatic" guns are utter garbage that will fire until it either runs out of bullets or explodes once you squeeze the trigger. However, the Silver Wheel ends up giving everybody some object lessons on how to design an armored vehicle later on in the manga, and it is a 'Redcoats vs Revolutionary snipers' shitshow when the Empire tries to take them on with their current (shitty) gear and tactical doctrine.

[@gypshasballs22]

Ssshhh!! Its a anime, nothing makes scents.

[@mfyolo8005]

anime is good. BUT, MANGA is absolute masterpiece. especially, vol21 is my favorite part of all time.

[@coconuttydragoon3445]

Oh yeah, and I gotta check if they updated since it has been soooo long! The anime didn’t get traction and they did do a bit of diverting from the main idea.

[@thewinterprince1731]

All this great sound design, but the anti tank pistol goes pew.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

can you imagine these guys in the battle of kursk, Kusama.

[@Dominik047]

This anime is so slept on

[@silentfox139]

The canon and gun fire is oddly muted. Was there a reason for this choice? Even the Japanese audio has the gun fire sound like this

[@coconuttydragoon3445]

Yeah, that may have been a choice or couldn’t find the right sound. In the manga, the sound of the door knocker is like a thunderous BANG!

[@TienNguyen-dg4xi]

Gespenst Jäger means Ghost Hunter.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

the voice their victim would hear before their death 6:42

[@dioarya6275]

*Paused at **00:41* "It was at this moment he knew... he fucked up" *Play again*

[@kirihikoazuma8045]

Und Gespenst Jäger ist hier.

[@JohnSmith-po2kl]

bro i thought of the smell of worsheshire sauce when i saw the color of that blood

[@BlackSunpahntom]

If I understand this correctly, the blue light gives him invulnerability and makes him but also an instinct killer

[@ChaosNe0]

Omega I would even claim that soldiers of that experimental program got brainwashed, thus making the hypnosis very effwctive.

[@TheGrifferic]

The light has nothing to do with it. The 901st had their brains experimented on to ignore all emotion and put them into a pure homicidal state. The lantern has a transmitter that is linked with the one in their brain. The lantern is simply an on/off switch for the soldiers so they could function in society without killing everyone. It is explained further in the manga.

[@Predator42ID]

Real shame it never got a second season. Also that explains a lot.

[@ninjadanimo4141]

@The Grifferic, the lantern isn't really an on/off switch, the doctor explained that the lantern's true purpose was to change how the brain reacted to stimuli, in this case give the person an urge to kill. The manga explains that the true objective is to make it so that the 901st can only think of killing

[@andymcneilly]

Daniel Okazaki Basically, that’s why he is hesitant turning it on much of the time. When you think of something more and more, it starts to become more etched into brain. They gain the will to kill, to slaughter their foes, no matter the cost. Shame it never got that second season. It was a really underrated anime, a great story and a complex tail where you wonder who is good or bad, what is justice, what is the _right_ of humanity.

[@VCMEntertainments]

remember that scene when kenshiro destroyed the Tank?

[@andrewcarlson3486]

i guess anti tank rifles don't exist in that world

[@exnihiloadnihilum5094]

They do. The pistol or "door knocker" is functionally a cut down one. AT rifles were outlawed in the empire as it encouraged lower classes to work together to take out tanks (which were piloted by those of Noble birth) and was viewed as possibly encouraging a peasant revolt.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@exnihiloadnihilum5094 it looks and functions like the thompson contender pistol

[@andymcneilly]

There was one such weapon, ein-schuss Gewehr, Translation: One-shot Rifle. It was a tapered barrel rifle with 12.7 mm, over 50 gouge. Such a rifle was so power, even the inbuilt shock absorbers still destroyed the tester’s arm. The problem with such a weapon... the a bullet fired out of it would be so hot and powerful, it woudl Pierce the tanks, but the barrel would basically be melting, meaning another shot could lead to gun exploding, and such a round was known to kill the user in such process. They were not outlawed, but the weapons of 901 ATT were nightmarish, dangerous to be foe and user, and a wish for death on all sides. You’d have to replace the barrel every time you use a shot, or you or risk the bullet blowing up with you with it.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

​@@andymcneilly I prefer ptrs41

[@andrewcarlson3486]

how the hell did he get his leg off of that spike

[@questofknowledge8788]

He literally moved his leg quickly tearing it out through the side of his leg.

[@andymcneilly]

He does loose his leg in the manga and reconnected.

[@andrewcarlson3486]

@@andymcneilly guess he can walk that one off

[@andymcneilly]

@@andrewcarlson3486 That’s to that cold doctor who basically invented a majority of the 900 troop units.

[@dd-gl2qf]

oh dear, the english dub is a bit shocking.

[@DGneoseeker1]

This is really dumb. Why are they using an anti-tank cannon against a human target? Why doesn't the cannon have flechette ammo for this purpose instead of crappy acid rounds? Why is there no machine gun on the tank?

[@coconuttydragoon3445]

Simple, their time period may be rather as basic tanks really for their era. Not brought up, the actual inventor made tanks and the invisible 9[Randel(lateen guy), 903(acid shells), which was a jump to what they normally use, since most common people of the empire use flintlocks or hand loaded bullets. 903 uses mostly biological(such as the virus head) and chemical warheads. The only tank with any sort of defense in the manga was one with a simple side gun ports, nothing more for just buckshot. From the sudden change of Calvary to tanks made many noble believe it was not needed, since anti-personal weapons were never developed, as no one is crazy enough rush the tank. Anti-tank such as mines were never developed for the nobles of the empire feared the idea of a revolt breaking out. But really, 903 was designed to bring despair in the most horrid way.

[@DGneoseeker1]

@@coconuttydragoon3445 That really doesn't look like a basic tank though. The design is WW2 style rather than WW1 style. THAT would be a basic tank. We can ignore that though. What I find weird is the lack of anti-personnel rounds. This world has firearms and cavalry. I think we can assume they had cannons. What do cannons shoot when you're facing crowds of infantry? Canister shot! Just put that into the tank gun. Doesn't require any technological advancement.

[@coconuttydragoon3445]

@@DGneoseeker1 As said, it was a major jump and so the idea of the is like a suit of armor, a commoner/simple soldier should’ve have the power to harm a tank on their own. The only one who ever developed such weaponry was the group Anti-Arse in the manga. The empire saw tanks like knights that only fellow knights should/could only fight.

[@DGneoseeker1]

@@coconuttydragoon3445 I'm not really following the logic there. Knights got killed by peasants all the damn time. Especially those with bows or crossbows.

[@coconuttydragoon3445]

@@DGneoseeker1 Been some time since I read up on the manga, so I’m rusty.